2016 came and went. :deep breath: 2017 stands before us. :second deep breath: I invite you to read a bit of Simone Weil's philosophy from her slim little book On the Abolition of All Political Parties. Weil makes sense of politics and the reasons why we can't look away. Simone influenced her generation by her stalwart pursuit of truth and justice, as related in Milosz's afterward. She gives us a center from which we may move and work today. :third breath: